Search Results - Hermeneutics

Folklore in New World Black Fiction : Writing and the Oral Tradition Aesthetics / by Ako̥ma, Chiji

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Interpretive Conventions : The Reader in the Study of American Fiction / by Mailloux, Steven

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The Idea of the Book in the Middle Ages : Language Theory, Mythology, and Fiction / by Gellrich, Jesse M., 1942-

Table of Contents: “…The language of mythology: on medieval grammar and hermeneutics --…”
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The Supplement of Reading : Figures of Understanding in Romantic Theory and Practice / by Rajan, Tilottama

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Part I -- The supplement of reading -- The hermeneutic tradition from Schleiermacher to Kierkegaard -- Kierkegaard and Schleiermacher revisited : the revisionary tradition in romantic hermeneutics -- Part II -- A. …”
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Victorian Women Writiers, Radical Grandmothers, and the Gendering of God / by Houston, Gail Turley, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : antecedents of the Victorian "goddess story" -- "Gods of the old mythology arise" : Charlotte Brontë's vision of the "goddess story" -- Feminist reincarnations of the Madonna : Anna Jameson and ecclesiastical debates on the immaculate conception -- Invoking "all the godheads" : Elizabeth Barrett Browning's polytheistic aesthetic -- Eve, the female messiah, and the Virgin in Florence Nightingale's personal and public papers -- Ariadne and the Madonna : the hermeneutics of the goddess in George Eliot's Romola.…”
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The Elusive Covenant : A Structural-Semiotic Reading of Genesis / by Prewitt, Terry J. (Terry James), 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Polity and history -- Historicity -- Mythscapes -- Tribal ranking and monarchic succession -- Birth order and maternal heritage -- Names, blessings, rank, and social structure -- Intersecting alliances of the Levites -- Territory, kingship, and social structure -- III. Structural hermeneutics -- Rhetorical structures and cultural themes -- Structural patterns in Genesis 1-14 -- Genesis 1 and 14 -- Genesis 2 and 13 -- Genesis 3 and 12 -- Adam and Abraham -- Genesis 4 and 11 -- Genesis 5 and 10 -- Genesis 6 and 9 -- Genesis 7 and 8 -- Adam, Noah, and Abram -- Toward a unified Genesis structure -- Themal analysis -- Holism and reductionism as hermeneutic principles -- IV. …”
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Luminol Theory by Joyce, Laura E.

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Fact and Fiction : Literary and Scientific Cultures in Germany and Britain /

Table of Contents: “…Fact and fiction : literary and scientific cultures in Germany and Britain -- thoughts on a contentious relationship / Christine Lehleiter -- Facts are what one makes of them : constructing the Faktum in the Enlightenment and early German Romanticism / Jocelyn Holland -- The competing structures of signification in Samuel Hahnemann's Homeopathy : between 18th-century Semiosis and Romantic Hermeneutics / Alice Kuzniar -- "She comes! the GODDESS!" …”
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Puritanism and Modernist Novels : From Moral Character to the Ethical Self / by Hinojosa, Lynne W., 1966-

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Clarissa's Ciphers : Meaning and Disruption in Richardson's Clarissa / by Castle, Terry

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Cato the Censor and the Beginnings of Latin Prose : From Poetic Translation to Elite Transcription / by Sciarrino, Enrica, 1968-

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Sons of the Gods, Children of Earth : Ideology and Literary Form in Ancient Greece / by Rose, Peter W. (Peter Wires), 1936-

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